Moldova's Commission for Emergency Situations issues new decisions on strengthening country's energy security

Chisinau, 14 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Energocom stock company will return financial means worth 1 billion lei to the state budget, given the stabilization of the situation on the natural gas market, decrease in the gas’ purchasing price, as well as taking into account the sufficient reserves accumulated for the 2023-2024 cold season. A decision to this effect has been approved at a meeting of the Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE), the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     
Another decision regards the enhancement of the capacity of transportation of gas to deposits of storing from Ukraine. The transport system operator will make available to the Energocom stock company, for the period till 1 November 2023, additional capacities created at all interconnection points on the entire period.   
Also, to ensure the needed quantity of electric energy on the domestic market, in October-December 2023, the Energocom stock company will buy electric energy demanded by providers and system operators, through concluding contracts based on direct negotiations or through exchange. If the conditions for purchasing electric energy are changed, the providers and system operators will conclude, during two working days after the signing of the contracts on acquisition, additional agreements to the contracts with the Energocom stock company.    
To facilitate the transit of goods of non-animal origin and ease the traffic at Moldova’s borders, a string of goods coming from Ukraine, transited cross Moldova, will be excepted from the carrying out of controls by the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA), in line with the current European Union’s practices.     
The Commission members also ruled to allocate 2.7 million lei from the government’s intervention fund to the Health Ministry, needed for the repair of the buildings of the Public Health Centre from the northern Edinet city, hit by the recent natural calamities.     
Photo: Government